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Anthropologists shed light on issues like racism, populism and climate change by studying them from close-up through the eyes of the people they study.

What attracts people to populism? How do differences between rich and poor affect a neighbourhood? Why are people concerned about climate change, but do not change their behaviour to prevent it? Where do we stand today with racism, xenophobia and “white privilege”?

The more the world throws these kinds of questions at us, the less we seem to understand them. Anthropologists shed light on issues of this kind by studying them from close up. They are different from other scientists, because they look at the world through the eyes of the people they study – in many cases people and groups that the rest of society overlooks. Anthropologists make complex subjects human and accessible.

The Bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at VU Amsterdam is ranked the best in the Netherlands, and it is the only English Bachelor's programme in Anthropology in the country.